SANTIAGO — Tonight, Oct. 28, the 31st annual Book Fair of Santiago will play host to 400 to 500 writers from around the world for the next 17 days. The annual event highlights the culture of Latin America through the art of writing and for the first time, the event will host a digital book kiosk [...]
A new book, along with a disk from the group “Los Chinganeros”, will reveal the social history of one of the most traditional neighborhoods of the capital: Barrio Franklin. Research from historians Araucaria Rojas and Karen Donoso brings to light unpublished documents and testimonies of Fernando Gonzalez Maraboli about the “Güeya” of the slaughterhouse in [...]
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On May 3rd each year, the international day of freedom of press is celebrated. This date gives pause to assess advances made – and ground lost – in the defence of the communications media and in attacks against its independence, and of course is a time to pay tribute to the journalists who have given [...]
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Ben Angel Oscar Hahn was already one of the leading figures in Chilean poetry when he received the Pablo Neruda Iberoamericano poetry prize for 2011. Despite the fact that the prize carries Neruda’s name, this is only the second time that the award was given to a Chilean. The award-winning poet was born in 1938 [...]
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Remembering one of Chile’s great poets and writers, Josefina Cabrera just finished launching a biography of Oscar Castro. The book launch took place on the 26th of March 2011 which just so-happened to be a day after Oscar Castro’s birthday. Cabrera who studied Oscar for about 2 years and recited many of his poems with [...]
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